Terminating or withholding the reinforcement that is maintaining an undesired behavior will result in __________

A) controlling the consequences of a behavior.
B) extinction of an undesirable behavior.
C) punishment of an undesired behavior.
D) reinforcement of an undesired behavior.

Termination or withholding of reinforcement that maintains an undesired behavior results in the extinction of the undesirable behavior. This means that the individual will stop exhibiting the undesired behavior because they are no longer receiving reinforcement or rewards for it. It is not a punishment because nothing is being added or taken away to decrease the frequency of the undesired behavior, but rather the behavior is simply no longer being reinforced. It is also not a reinforcement of the undesired behavior because the behavior is no longer being reinforced.